The mesoscale convection life cycle: building block or prototype for large-scale tropical waves?

By B. Mapes, S. Tulich, Jialin Lin, Paquita Zuidema. 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Structure and Properties of Madden–Julian Oscillations Deduced from DYNAMO Sounding Arrays (2013, result): “These findings support the ‘‘build-ing block’’ concept of the MJO proposed by Mapes et al. (2006).”
• An Idealized Semi-Empirical Framework for Modeling the Madden–Julian Oscillation (2012, background): “This could indicate that the processes that lead to the slow deepening of convection at the leading edge (e.g., Mapes et al. 2006) need to be represented better in this model.”
• Analysis of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves in the Indian Ocean MJO (2008, background): “…data do not resolve moist anomalies above 300 hPa, these easterly anomalies are frequently observed in association with elevated nimbostratus clouds following the deep convection in convectively coupled equatorial waves (e.g., Haertel and Kiladis 2004; Kiladis et al. 2005; Mapes et al. 2006).”
• A Moisture-Stratiform Instability for Convectively Coupled Waves (2008, result): “…evidence for the inadequacy of the first baroclinic mode models is that they do not yield instability without external destabilization mechanisms (Emanuel et al., 1994), which is inconsistent with the results of cloud system resolving model (CSRM) simulations (e.g. Tulich et al., 2006;Kuang, 2007).”
• CORRIGENDUM of the MJO Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection in Cloudsat-Calipso Data and GISS GCM Simulations (2012, background): “The general picture of MJO cloud evolution seen by CloudSat/CALIPSO is very consistent with the ‘‘stretched building block’’ paradigm of Mapes et al. (2006).”
• Fifty Years of Research on the Madden‐Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives (2020, background): “The dynamical structures and cloud morphology of the MCSs and CCEWs display a large degree of self‐similarity to theMJO (Figure 2), with shallow convection at their leading edge, followed by deep convection and then stratiform precipitation (Kiladis et al., 2009; Mapes et al., 2006).”
• Convectively coupled equatorial waves (2009, background): “The ubiquity of vertical heating and dynamical profiles along with cloud morphological fields from MCSs to planetary scales raises some fundamental questions about the manner in which convection is coupled to the large-scale circulation [Kiladis et al., 2005; Mapes et al., 2006; Majda, 2007].”
• Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part III: Genesis (2008, background): “…is meant to mimic the heating over cooling region dominant in regions of stratiform precipitation trailing large-scale systems of propagating deep convection (Houze 1997, 2004), whereas the former accounts for the leading edge of shallow convection within such systems (e.g., Mapes et al. 2006).”